PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Koplinka-Loehr, Irene TI - Hatpins AID - 10.1370/afm.2135 DP - 2017 Nov 01 TA - The Annals of Family Medicine PG - 581--582 VI - 15 IP - 6 4099 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/6/581.short 4100 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/6/581.full SO - Ann Fam Med2017 Nov 01; 15 AB - Hatpins is a first-person narrative that delves into a physician’s experience of a patient death during the early years of residency. The essay reflects on the conflicted physician-patient relationships that can develop even over the short tenure of residency. While residency seeks to create medically prepared and compassionate physicians, this piece speaks to the importance of the often subtle learning that comes from ethical, social, and cultural aspects of both the lives and deaths of our patients.